Colchians
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the Colchians · heralds of the Colchians · near-by Colchians
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Anabasis
People of Colchis, first opposed militarily and then involved in local negotiations near Trapezus.
They likewise took part in negotiations with the Greeks in behalf of the near-by Colchians, who dwelt for the most part on the plain, and from these people also the Greeks received hospitable gifts of oxen.
There they remained about thirty days in the villages of the Colchians, and from these as a base plundered Colchis.
At this place was a great mountain, and upon this mountain the Colchians were drawn up in line of battle.
The Histories
A people living by the Phasis whom Herodotus argues descend from soldiers left behind by Sesostris, based on physical resemblance and shared customs with the Egyptians.
but my better proof was that the Colchians and Egyptians and Ethiopians are the only nations that have from the first practised circumcision.
The Phoenicians and the Syrians of Palestine acknowledge that they learned the custom from the Egyptians, and the Syrians of the valleys of the Thermodon and the Parthenius, as well as their neighbors the Macrones, say that they learned it lately from the Colchians.
Listen to something else about the Colchians, in which they are like the Egyptians:
Adversus Marcionem
A Pontic people associated in legend and myth (e.g. Medea).
nothing there has any warmth except savagery — that savagery, of course, which gave the stage its fables of the sacrifices of the Tauri, the loves of the Colchians, and the crosses of the Caucasus.